Total Recall 2070 was created by Art Monterastelli. The series is named after the 1990 film Total Recall, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale", but it has been noted as sharing no major plot points or characters with it, other than the Rekall company and the concept of virtual vacations. Instead, a much larger influence in its plot elements and especially visual style has been recognized to be the 1982 film Blade Runner, itself a loose adaptation of Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Series creator Art Monterastelli has admitted the stronger influence of Blade Runner over Total Recall, and explained, he thought doing a paranoid psychological thriller with a strong visual background reminiscent of Blade Runner, would be a better use of their limited budget, provide more creative opportunities to the writers, and even be more in line with the spirit of Dick's antihero storylines as found in his body of work, compared to the Total Recall action film. Despite the influence of his works to the series production, Dick is not credited on the series main or end titles.
TV show's Ratings
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Runtime | 44 min – 1 hour |
Premiere: World | January 5, 1999 |
Channel | CBC (Canada) |
Premiere: USA | March 7, 1999 |
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Description
A detective for a police agency is teamed with a naive new officer, who is secretly an android, and often conflicts with the Assessor’s Office and the security forces of "the Consortium", a small number of extremely powerful companies. memory manipulation•artificial intelligence•dystopian future•virtual reality•detective investigation